ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,852, issued on April 21, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Terminal and communication method using semi-static physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration" was invented by Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This terminal is provided with a control circuit for setting a plurality of transmission opportunities with respect to a unit time interval corresponding to a scheduling unit, and a transmit circuit for performing repetitive transmission of uplink control ...